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Genesis 10

Gen. 10:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Ham
Cham (Hebrew #2526)
hot (from the tropical habitat); Cham, a son of Noah; also (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country
KJV usage: Ham.
Pronounce: khawm
Origin: the same as 2525
; Cush
Kuwsh (Hebrew #3568)
Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite
KJV usage: Chush, Cush, Ethiopia.
Pronounce: koosh
Origin: probably of foreign origin
, and Mizraim
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
, and Phut
Puwt (Hebrew #6316)
Put, a son of Ham, also the name of his descendants or their region, and of a Persian tribe
KJV usage: Phut, Put.
Pronounce: poot
Origin: of foreign origin
, and Canaan
Kna`an (Hebrew #3667)
humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
KJV usage: Canaan, merchant, traffick.
Pronounce: ken-ah'-an
Origin: from 3665
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Canaan,
Cush,
Ham,
Mizraim,
Phut; Put,
Son

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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A.M. 1676.
B.C. 2228.
And the.
Gen. 9:22• 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Gen. 9:22)
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1 Chron. 1:8‑16• 8The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
 9And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
 10And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
 11And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
 12And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
 13And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
 14The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
 15And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
 16And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. (1 Chron. 1:8‑16)
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1 Chron. 4:40• 40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old. (1 Chron. 4:40)
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Psa. 78:51• 51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: (Psa. 78:51)
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Psa. 105:23,27• 23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
 27They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. (Psa. 105:23,27)
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Psa. 106:22• 22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. (Psa. 106:22)
Ham.Ham signifies burnt or black; and this name was peculiarly significant of the regions allotted to his family.
To the Cushites, or descendants of Cush, were allotted the hot southern regions of Asia, along the shores of the Persian Gulf, Susiana or Chusistan, etc.; to the sons of Canaan, Palestine and Syria; to the sons of Mizraim, Egypt and Libya, in Africa.Cush.
Isa. 11:11• 11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isa. 11:11)
Phut.
Jer. 46:9• 9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. (Jer. 46:9)
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Jer. 46•  (Jer. 46)
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Ezek. 27:10• 10They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. (Ezek. 27:10)
• The prominent fact that strikes one here is that this is the branch of mankind which after the deluge distinguished itself by the earliest and most vigorous civilization; and this not in an isolated instance, but alike in Asia and in Africa. (“Genesis 10:6” by W. Kelly)
• It is no less plain that Ham and his sons are as marked after the deluge by their progress in civilization, as by the degeneracy into barbarism. (“Genesis 10:6” by W. Kelly)
• No one doubts that in general Cush as a country lies beyond higher Egypt; but as a race they settled far more widely, as already pointed out. (“Genesis 10:6” by W. Kelly)
• The Jews, as is known, assign to Cush (translated Ethiopia ordinarily) not only his African seat but the opposite coast of Arabia and the southern shore of Asia generally into India. And this is well founded. But Arabia received also a large Shemitic population which gave character to their language; and this as we shall see not only from Joktan, Eber's son, but from Jokshan, Abraham's son by Keturah, and from Ishmael's twelve sons, with some of Esau's decendants. (“Genesis 10:2” by W. Kelly)
• There is no question as to the identification of Mizraim, and the great magnificence of its civilization as of the Asiatic Cush in the remotest antiquity. (“Genesis 10:6” by W. Kelly)
• Phut or Put exemplifies the more degraded stock of Ham's descendants in Africa, contiguous to Egypt and Ethiopia, and named with one or other at times. (“Genesis 10:6” by W. Kelly)
• Canaan, last named, has the most unenviable place of all, as the early object of curse, and the direst adversary of Israel in the land assigned according to promise: a highly civilized race, but steeped in shameless idolatry and every moral abomination, and therefore given up according to earthly righteousness to extermination (“Genesis 10:6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the sons of Ham: Cushg, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

JND Translation Notes

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These names are given later to countries, i.e. Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the sons of Ham, Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan.